Amazon is being sued after an alleged hoverboard fire left a family in Nashville's home devastated.

WKRN reports that the family has filed a lawsuit seeking $30 million (£24.6m) in damages against the company and its subsidiaries, as well as W2M Trading Corporation, which the family says they believe sold them the hoverboard.

The fire at Brian and Megan Fox's home on January 9, 2016 is believed to have been started by the FITURBO F1 hoverboard, bought in November 2015 as a Christmas present.

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At the time of the fire, the couple's teenage daughter and son were home and heard a noise downstairs. When the 16-year-old discovered it was a fire, she kicked out a second floor window and jumped into her father's arms.

"I got there and I was kicking in the doors and I thought, 'I'm going to lose two of my four children today'. I was yelling for her, 'Please jump, baby, please jump' and she jumped out the window without hesistation," Brian Fox recalled.

The lawsuit claims that the hoverboard's instructions "contained no warnings about the risk of fire" or about excessive heat following use and while charging the product.

It also claims that the defendants knew of multiple instances of fire caused by hoverboards that had been sold through Amazon.

The home was destroyed by the fire, with damages expected to amount to $1m (£820,000).

Earlier this year, a YouTube user got more than he bargained for when he purchased a self-balancing scooter from eBay which suddenly burst into flames when he used it.